What I ended up doing was formatting my HD in safe mode and reinstalling XP
Pro.  I figure that will wipe out whatever is going on.  Good thing I always
have backups.  Now I just have to reinstall everything.

Diane Kroeckel




On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mandi Wilson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Have you tried running any online virus scanners like ewido, bit defender,
> or housecall (trend micro)?
> Also you might have some other malware slowing you down if you haven't been
> running something like spybot search and destroy, malwarebytes, and/or
> superantispyware.
>
> Mandi
>
> Diane K wrote:
>
>> Dear Listers,
>>
>> My computer freezes after a very short time once I get into Windows.  I
>> switched to my bootable backup, and now *it's* freezing.  My HD's are not
>> even half full.  I'm thinking it's a virus, though I run AVG and
>> ZoneAlarm.
>>
>>
>
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